SoftBank CEO Says Robots Make Peace, Not ‘Terminator’ War

By

Mayumi Negishi

Jun 20, 2014 9:32 am ET

Shortly after Tesla Motors and SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk spoke of the need to be wary of “Terminator”-like outcomes from artificial intelligence, another tech visionary stressed the power of robots to spread love, joy, and peace.

Softbank chief executive Masayoshi Son invited the Japanese firm’s emotion-sensing robot Pepper onstage during the annual general shareholders’ meeting Friday. The two competed on tongue-twisters, with Pepper rattling off a tongue-twister 100 million times faster than Son — and getting some laughs for it.